[11] The text of the treatise is, however, incomplete. The author of the pseudo-Platonic Minos (321 A) speaks of the current belief that Thespis was the originator of tragedy.
[12] This is a mere name for a really anonymous collection of information on philosophical and other history.
[13] Ars Poetica, 275-7.
[14] Poetic, 1449a.
[15] βασιλεὺς ἦν Χοίριλος ἐν σατύροις (Plotius, De Metris, p. 2633, quoted by Haigh, Tragic Drama, p. 40).
[16] Frogs, 689: εἴ τις ἥμαρτε σφαλείς τι Φρυνίχου παλαίσμασιν. The allusion in the first instance points undoubtedly to the famous general Phrynichus; but his political machinations are jokingly referred to as a “wrestling-bout” because of the celebrated description in his namesake the playwright.
[17] Herod. VI, 21.
[18] Wasps, 220 (μέλη ἀρχαιομελισιδωνοφρυνιχήρατα).
[19] Birds, 748-51, reading ὥσπερ ἡ μέλιττα.
[20] λάμπει δ’ ἐπὶ πορφυρέαις παρῇσι φῶς ἔρωτος. Notice the exquisite alliteration. Sophocles no doubt had this line in mind when he wrote Antigone 782.